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- TOM RIDGE ALSO TOO SCARED OF PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS: The few Republicans who actually want to have representation in the United States Senate are screwed yet again, as their best chance in the 2010 Pa. Senate general election, popular moderate abortion lover Tom Ridge, will not run. As with Arlen Specter, Ridge was shown trailing the “Real American” candidate Pat Toomey in potential primary match-up polls, so why even bother with that shit. [Ben Smith]
Give it Toomey.
If he’d just stop having abortions he wouldn’t be in this predicament.
so if(when) Toomey loses, will the PA Republicans opt for secession?
What if a black guy hated abortions, would he be electable?
Thanks, but no thanks, to that Ridge To Nowhere.
I guess Tom decided that the Threat Level was Red for “Jesus Christ, this party is run by krazy Klan krackers”.
I heard he was scared off by the threatened revelation of a condiment related scandal.
Nothing sez the REAL US America than poors and stupids supporting a guy who made his bones being a cocksucker for eelights.
“No one party has a monopoly on all of the answers”.
Ridge apologizes to Rush in 3, 2, 1…
Why does anyone like this Tom Ridge guy? Is it because he looks like a cross between J Edgar Hoover and Broderick Crawford? It sure isn’t because he’s competent, because DHS is the most screwed up part of the government — or else it just is the government. Plus Ridge, who is “not detail oriented,” gave us the Traffic Light of Doom. This alone is transcendent FAIL you can believe in.
Custerwolf: You are doing soooo good today.
BTW, did fancypants really get hijacked by her family for two weeks of Web abstinence?
Custerwolf: Several years ago, I had two clients named “Wisch” and “Toumey”. And if I heard “wisch you’d give it toumey” once, I heard it a million times, in my office. Thanks for the reminder.
I think we killed off or displaced the “Real Americans” a few centuries ago, but if the Republicans are sure about this then let them Google “Native American Indians”. That’ll give ‘em a place to start looking for the right candidate…
V572625694: Strangely enough, Broderick Crawford once played J. Edgar Hoover.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076567/
Coward.
Ann Coulter could make Ridge her biatch.
My guess. Ridge is still pissed off that the Repubs didn’t think he was conservative enough to be their VP so he’s giving them a big STFU now that they need him.
V572625694: I hear he made the SEPTA trains run on time.
bitchincamaro: Even my dog gave me a dirty look for that one.
This is kind of brilliant. The Republicans are so pure in ideology, they can’t get a moderate, state-wide or nation-wide electable candidate. Bliss.
V572625694: I was wondering that my damned self.
The Tom Ridge Security Alert Advisory System level has been set back to Green, or Low. The alert level had previously been at level Orange, or High, indicating High Risk of Tom Ridge Candidacy. Please continue to monitor the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge Security Alert Advisory System for further updates.
Okay, so we probably will get Pennsylvania and Missouri, we have a good shot at Ohio and New Hampshire, and, if Bunning is renominated in Kentucky, it is a lock. What about Florida? Do the Democrats have a first-tier candidate yet? Crist will be hard to beat. What, this isn’t a serious political site? Oh sorry, I though I was on TPM. Never mind. Anal crucifixions, truck nutz, and what have you.
V572625694: I read a Monitor story back during the 2004 campaign Kerry had a bump so Ridge read a list of buildings in NY that Bush have saved from being blown up. At the same time, the English M whatthefuck number police arrested eleven suspected terrorists, two weeks earlier (and more dangerously) than originally planned. The English woudn’t comment, but a piece of evidence taken off one of the suspects was a list of buildings in NY–yes, kids, Ridge had compromised the operation for some political points.
No snark, just facts. Republithugs are douche bags.
On a related note, it’s 3 o’clock central time and the Rs in the OK State lege haven’t passed any batshit crazy bills today–yet.
I think Tom just took one for the team. Granted, it’s the Democratic team…
qwerty42: That would be fine; I think most of us here in Philly wouldn’t mind loosing the whole middle, NRA-and-Confederate-flag-loving section of the state, and their legislators who seem to think they’ve been elected primarily to screw us and Pittsburgh.
“And so my desire and intention is to help my party craft solutions that both sides of the aisle can embrace.”
“And since both parties seem content with the Republicans purging themselves into obscurity and irrelevance like some fading B-list child star, far be it from me to step in front of the speeding hate train that is my party’s base. If anyone needs me, I’ll be doing hookers and blow between speaking engagements. Ridge out.”
DustBowlBlues: Perhaps those august solons in OKC could pass a resolution to the effect that God is merciful.
So did Ridge read off like, every building in NY besides the seven that went down on 9/11? Sounds like great stuff: “123 W 43rd Street, 129 W 43rd Street, 171 W 43rd Street. And on the other side of the street, 120 W 43rd Street….”
Custerwolf: ‘Cuz we need smartypants here. Maybe she left a trail of breadcrumbs, and we can go rescue her.
JMP: Same thing in MO, where a majority of the legislators from outside St Louis/Kansas City seem to think their primary job is screwing the people who live in the actual cities.
Brendan M.: You forgot abortions. Things may look bad for the Republicans, but they’ll always have Oklahoma.
V572625694: Is smarty pants a teenager, or what? Since Jim’s only 16 (based on how he looks standing under an umbrella) maybe it’s his girl friend.
You know you’ve wasting waay too much time on wonkette when you remember Jim’s umbrella photo.
Jim —
Toomey was actually getting killed by Ridge in polling.
Have a look-see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14992307/GOP-POLL
(via http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/4914/pasen-gop-poll-shows-ridge-beating-toomey-specter)
JMP: Maybe that part of Penn will secede. It’s all the craze among red states, you know. Liberals talk about third parties because Nader’s a wuss–real crazies want to form a new country. It would be a great idea if they weren’t taking me with them.
And whoever said the OK lege could pass a resolution declaring God is merciful has clearly never lived with these dumbshits. It would say God is merciful–to born again Christians only.
So, Tom, that DHS job sorta bit ya in the backside, eh?
V572625694: Yes. FTW.
DustBowlBlues: Abortions may matter in primitive places like Oklahoma and every GOP primary electorate, so it may propel people like Toomey to the general election, but not to office. Is Coburn going to retire? I really hope he does, and I heard rumors.
Brendan M.: You were going down a bad road for a minute there. Nice recovery.
Custerwolf: Sock it Toomey! Sock it Toomey! Sock it Toomey!
More “Secret Communists”:
via Matt Yglesias David Frum writes on Jack Kemp. Frum writes:
…Yet Kemp was always ready to take as proven truth what he wished were true. He was always ready to subject every problem—no matter how seemingly intractable—to the pleasing remedy of a tax cut.
Tax cuts don’t solve everything???? RINO. Commie. Traitor. Anarcho-syndicalist. Fascisto-socialist.
DustBowlBlues: Yup… and Utar.
Why in God’s name would Ridge go back into politics? He’s making bazillions in the private sector. Getting out of the Homeland business before it so obviously turned to shit showed the ruling class “that guy has brains.” As a grandson of immigrants who spent his entire career in public service — if you can possibly call being a Republican “public service” — this good life he’s now experiencing seems DAMN good to him. He can hang out in country clubs drinking single malt with people who are actually impressed to meet the person who invented Code Orange. I’ll bet at least once a week some dipshit pokes him in the ribs and says, “You showed that KSM who’s boss, din’t ya, Tommy?” And if he did run, his wife would probably kill him. She’s got a decorator to pay.
rev_matt_y:
Must be a nationwide thing. Here in Maryland, I’m convinced any Md. legislator running for office must give a blood oath to automatically oppose any legislation that would benefit the DC suburbs or (especially) Baltimore (aka “that cesspool”), even if it benefits there districts. Hey, ya know, I’m getting the impression those folks don’t much cotton to us city slickers.
AnAdmirerOfThatOne: That’s any Md. legislator in the panhandle or on the Eastern Shore.
proudgrampa: See ya on the Flip side!
Custerwolf: Actually, I shouldn’t say that until I verify that Rowan and Martin are actually dead. I’ve been mistaken before.
Brendan M.: I’d love to confirm the rumors about Coburn, but news from and about Oklahoma is so depressing, I work hard to avoid knowing anything about what’s going on in my state unless confronted by wonkette.
The Democratic State Convention is next weekend. I’ll get together with the entire party–we’re using the Starbucks at B and N in OKC as our convention site so we’ll have plenty of elbow room for all the Ds in Oklahoma–and I’ll let you know the scoop.
Actually, Spooky Doctor Tom is pretty good about quitting when he says he will. Fucking Club for Growth lured him out of retirement from the congress to run for the Senate.
19kevin8: Utah!
I was under the impression that FTW stood for Fuck The What.
To be fair, I doubt Speccy survives his primary run either. Dems don’t run a real tight ship like that, Obama probably won’t swing the same pipe a year from now as he does right now (hell, six months from now).
Dems should beat Toomey, and can get all “principled” and run against Speccy, so I’m guessing that primary may turn into a race sooner rather then later.
Are you kidding, New York is also like this…I swear, in Albany, if everyone who lives south of Rockland county isn’t secretly wishing you were dead, you’re not doing your job.